Search for dissertations about: "Žižek"
Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word Žižek.
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1. Between Colonialism and Nationalism : Art, History, and Politics in James Joyce’s Ulysses
Abstract : Through a thorough analysis of all eighteen episodes of Ulysses, this study advances a dialectical reading of Ireland’s pre-revolutionary imagination as it unfolds in James Joyce’s novel. By tracing Joyce’s engagements with British colonialism, national romanticism and the Celtic Revival, this study views Joyce’s modernist project as a comprehensive literary response to Ireland’s changing aesthetic sensibilities, political fortunes, and social concerns. READ MORE
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2. The Ambassador's Letter : On Diplomacy as Ideological State Apparatus
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3. The Ambassador's Letter : On the Less Than Nothing of Diplomacy
Abstract : The principal aim of this dissertation is to answer the age-old question What is diplomacy? But this study approaches the question in what might, on first look, appear oblique. By employing Slavoj Žižek’s reworked notion of Ideologiekritik with respect to the history, science, and artistic explorations of diplomacy, this work begins by extracting three of its essential problems: the name, death, and representation. READ MORE
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4. The Vicissitudes of Corruption : Degeneration - transgression - jouissance
Abstract : In a time when corruption is receiving increasing media coverage and when many claim to wage a war on corruption, this book brings up the need for a problematisation and an increased understanding of the different manifestations – the vicissitudes – of corruption and also what measures are taken against it. The book advances the claim that corruption is tightly related to modernity and particularly to a transgression of the public / private dichotomy. READ MORE